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All the Weyrs of Pern (Pern (Chronological Order) #23)
For generations, the dragonriders had dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, the dreaded spores that periodically rained from the sky to ravage the land. On the backs of their magnificent telepathic dragons they flew to flame the deadly stuff out of the air before it could reach the planet's surface. But the greatest dream of the dragon riders was to find a way to eradi...more
Paperback, 404 pages
Published
September 10th 1997
by Del Rey
(first published 1991)
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YA-- AIVAS, the Artificial Intelligence Voice Address System that was a part of the original colonists' settlement, is unearthed on the Southern continent after having been buried for generations. This latest volume in the Pern saga deals with the reactions of the various lords, dragonriders, and craftsmen as they realize the impact the artificial intelligence will have on their culture and traditions. With its help, F'lar, Robinton, Lessa, Menolly, and all of the ot
The Dragonriders are exhausted, having fought Thread for many years, and the deadly spores are still falling. However, a trip to the Southern part of Pern uncovers a hidden treasure – the AIVAS computer that was part of the original settlers' legacy to the people of Pern. In the computer are many lost knowledge parts, one of which I found very amusing – the difference in speech patterns between the original and the current settlers. The vanity of the people had convinced them that the pronunciat...more
This is a really long book. I think McCaffrey wants to be Tolkien by creating a fantasy world that we want to inhabit. This is on the planet Pern very much into the future, populated 2,000 years ago. The initial settles were highly technological with artificial intelligence (AI), but their civilization deteriorated, and now the inhabitants are tribal without technology, but with evolved dragons from a genetic modification of lizards. The dragons bond with one human rider, and they can transmit t...more
During the reading of this book, I couldn't put it down. At the end, I basically wanted to throw it across the room, cry out my hate of it and pretend I'd never read it. That being said, it wasn't because I hated the book itself. I hated the irrevocably sad ending that nearly left me in tears. I don't normally get that way with most books, but I had become attached to Robinton.
They have done what they set out to do in the beginning of the series- destroy the threat of "Thread". However, this ha...more
They have done what they set out to do in the beginning of the series- destroy the threat of "Thread". However, this ha...more
Overall, I have really enjoyed reading the Dragonriders of Pern series. I must say though that this particular tale didn't do a whole lot for me at first.
The story builds on the events related in an earlier work, Dragonsdawn, a book I found rather dull and slow going.
In the first hundred pages of All the Weyrs of Pern s made mention of so many characters that I seriously considered making a flowchart to help me keep them all straight.
I felt the Artificial Intelligence Voice-Address System did f...more
The story builds on the events related in an earlier work, Dragonsdawn, a book I found rather dull and slow going.
In the first hundred pages of All the Weyrs of Pern s made mention of so many characters that I seriously considered making a flowchart to help me keep them all straight.
I felt the Artificial Intelligence Voice-Address System did f...more
If you're looking to read all the classic "Dragonriders of Pern" stories, then I'd suggest reading up to this point, and no further. Some authors wouldn't be able to do such a complete shift in their writing, from a fantasy-medieval-type setting into a futuristic technological utopia, but McCaffrey manages to pull it off. You have all the characters you've grown familiar with from the previous seven books, and you get to see them adapt to all the changes that are coming into this world.
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Mouais... C'est looonnng ! En fait, mis à part les cinquantes dernières pages, je dois dire que j'ai eu bien du mal à avancer sur ce bouquin. Je connaissais pourtant l'univers de la Ballade de Pern, ayant déjà lu plusieurs tomes de la série, et les ayant appréciés, mais là... Est-ce parce qu'on est en dehors de cet univers justement ? Les Pernais ont retrouvé l'accès aux connaissances et aux vaisseaux de leurs ancêtres, et l'action ne se déroule plus vraiment dans l'univers médiéval-fantastique...more
This book takes place two thousand years after the colonists settle on Pern. Society has crumbled, de-evolving from a sophisticatced technocracy, to a medieval setting. All of that changes when they find an artifact left over from their answers, an artificial intelligence voice activated system, called, what else? AIVAS.
Many of the Pernians are very suspicious of AIVAS, and call it the abomination. A lot of the craftsmen are jealous, because AIVAS is teaching people better ways of working glass...more
Many of the Pernians are very suspicious of AIVAS, and call it the abomination. A lot of the craftsmen are jealous, because AIVAS is teaching people better ways of working glass...more
• This is a great story in and of itself and also a fitting way to bring about the end of the menace to Pern. There were some parts that I think could have been slightly more dramatic. It seemed like too much went right. There weren’t enough problems. It also took a ton of drama out of the end when Jaxom went forward in time to see if the mission was a success. Why did A.M. bother putting that in? I understand that having Robinton die was necessary. I was sad to see him die, but what bothered me...more
I enjoyed this book by Anne McCaffrey. I read some of the reviews written about it before deciding to read the book. I had read several of her books, and though the few reviews I read were not particularly positive, I felt I would read ALL THE WEYRS OF PERN in any case. But two points mentioned in the reviews stuck out to me, and I watched for them as I read, a positive and negative aspect of reading what other people think, for one cannot help but be influenced even marginally by what others sa...more
Oh, Anne McCaffrey. I almost didn't pick this up when I was looking for something to re-read because I was like, "what is there to get excited about in this book?" Y'know, besides acting as the climax-book of the Pern series as a whole. But I went with it out of nostalgia and swept through it quickly, and as always, got a little misty-eyed at all the key character moments for F'lar, Jaxom, and Robinton. As the tvtropes wiki points out, this book has a fantastic CMOA or two (Crowning Moment of Aw...more
Anne McCaffrey's world of Pern is one of my favorite world-building series. I think as a girl growing up in the 50's and 60's, I was the perfect target for the Dragonrider books. Having been told I could not pursue either of my dream careers (astronaut or [large-animal] veterinarian) simply because I was a girl really crushed me. Along comes Lessa, destined to become the greatest dragon rider of all Pern. I was caught up and transported to this strange world where a girl beat the odds. And on dr...more
For someone who's largely uninitiated within the Pern universe, this book was a pleasurable journey back to the world of dragons, dragonriders and harpermasters.
I've only read one other Anne McCaffrey book, the Masterharper of Pern, so for me reading this book was a great way for me to understand the precarious situation of pitting a largely agrarian society versus (however ironically) a return to true Pernese roots. Instead of simply aligning the current culture with the re-discovery of Aivas,...more
I've only read one other Anne McCaffrey book, the Masterharper of Pern, so for me reading this book was a great way for me to understand the precarious situation of pitting a largely agrarian society versus (however ironically) a return to true Pernese roots. Instead of simply aligning the current culture with the re-discovery of Aivas,...more
This, the eleventh Pern novel, was a good read. Sometimes I found McCaffrey's style clunky, which concerns me. Perhaps the original trilogies of Dragonriders and Harper Hall are smoother -- been a few years. Anyway, my other concern was the fact that the cast is enormous, and it's been two-ish years since the last time I read a novel of Pern. So sometimes characters were simply names I recognized but with no clue as to who they were. A sentence of introduction to jog my memory would have helped....more
Unlike many other creators of alternate worlds, Anne McCaffery continues to mine fresh ore from the soil of her imagined reality. Her storytelling is good, too.
These few Pern books that delve into science and spaceships are not my favorite, though I enjoy the company of familiar characters. Wish this book changed character perspectives more equably though, since some of the characters I was interested in didn't get as much time in the spotlight as I would have liked. Jaxom plays a starring role and while it's nice to have follow through from The White Dragon, there are so many other fascinating characters that I want to see more of (like Menolly and Se...more
Jun 08, 2011
Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides
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This was the first book that in this series that was released after I started reading it, and it was the first book that I can remember eagerly awaiting the release of. I even asked my parents to buy it for me for Christmas.
It has lots of epic and heroic scope. Some of the characters have started to get sort of annoying, and it really needs a list of dramatis personae. So many years after being actively engaged with the story, it's easier to forget exactly who's who even it comes to peripheral c...more
It has lots of epic and heroic scope. Some of the characters have started to get sort of annoying, and it really needs a list of dramatis personae. So many years after being actively engaged with the story, it's easier to forget exactly who's who even it comes to peripheral c...more
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I read through Pern quickly my first time and I didn't quite make note of what I did and didn't read. At one point I was very strict about reading each and every title only chronologically. Now, I just want to read them as I find them or as certain topics are relevant to me. I am pretty sure I didn't come across this story before as it hits all the nails on the head of topics that are of great interest to me summed up simply as "technology and society". It's a good read and I'm now looking for a...more
This is one of my favorite Pern books. I like the character development of AIVAS the computer who helps eradicate the threat of thread and the virus in space forever. I like the controversy of change and how some people respond positively and negatively. I like how believable the whole story of Pern is in general. I get sucked into their world and see the charm and dangers of their simplistic agricultural lifestyle. This is one the books that I read again and again to reexperience their greatest...more
Apr 26, 2012
Curtiss
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I was gratified to finally read in 2007 how my old friends F'lar and Lessa managed to eliminate the threadfall forever in this installment of the Dragonriders of Pern books, which I began reading back in 1967 when "Dragonflight" was first published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact magazine in three successive issues. "Hooray" for F'lar!- for finally destroying his nemesis, with the help of the recently discovered AIVAS, forgotten in the buried ruins of the colonist's landing site for over...more
Okay . . . I'm done with Pern for now. Why read it . . . at my age!?
Well, being sci-fi and fantasy geek all one's young life can wear off after an adult lifetime of earning a living and raising a family (or starting a new one as in my case). Now middle aged, I remember the series and also recall I never read it although my adolecent friends in the highschool sci-fi club were all enthused about it. The decades passed and I found (and still find) that I'm in need of something to which I can listen...more
Well, being sci-fi and fantasy geek all one's young life can wear off after an adult lifetime of earning a living and raising a family (or starting a new one as in my case). Now middle aged, I remember the series and also recall I never read it although my adolecent friends in the highschool sci-fi club were all enthused about it. The decades passed and I found (and still find) that I'm in need of something to which I can listen...more
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This book picks up where Renegades left off... with the discovery of the Artificial Intelligence Voice Address System, or Aivas. The original settlers had programmed Aivas to discover a way to end the threat of thread forever. Aivas may have found just such a way, but it will take the cooperation of all the weyrs and a special role for Jaxom and Ruth to accomplish. Not everyone on Pern thinks that Aivas is a good thing. Some call it abomination and will fight to keep the Pernese from following t...more
In some ways, the culmination of the series, but not the last book she's written on Pern. For it to make sense, you really need to have read the original three books, and the several in between (check the publication dates) are helpful, too. You can skip the "Harper Hall Trilogy". It would be easy to let a spoiler slip out on this book, so all I can say is that it's one of the finer Pern books, very solidly written, and brings together many disparate threads (ba-dum ching!) of the storylines to...more
Even as a Pern fan, this book is a chore to read. 99% plot; 1% suspense-building. No character development. Prose is flat and tepid. I had to force myself to finish it. Despite excellent writing in much of the Pern series, McCaffrey here relies constantly on extremely annoying and transparent pulp shortcuts, such as using stilted dialogue to give the reader information known to all speakers that more properly belongs in exposition. I recommend just reading a plot summary including "spoilers," an...more
All the Weyrs of Pern brings us to the discovery of Aivas in the hope to see the destruction of Thread. With Aivas's guidance and knowledge to bring Pern up to date with lost knowledge of their ancestors. F'lar, Lessa, Piemur, Jancis, and Jaxom leading the way inspite of the few dissenters against all Aivas brings in the way of new ideas, thoughts, and knowledge. Deadly Thread must still be fought until it can be stopped forever. A few people try to destroy Aivas and are ruthlessly stopped by Ai...more
I've long been a fan of the Dragonriders of Pern series. This installment was a satisfying read. It fits in well with the rest of the series and provided a nice... cap to the struggle against Thread, the menace that threatens the planet and the reason there are dragonriders in the first place. I also liked that this particular book focused on two of my favorite characters in the series: Jaxom and Masterharper Robinton.
If you've never read any of the Pern books, I wouldn't recommend starting wit...more
If you've never read any of the Pern books, I wouldn't recommend starting wit...more
So I think I read half way through this book somewhere around 1996. It seemed very familiar up to that point. As with all of her books so far, I really enjoyed this one. This really brings the series full circle, and it easily could have ended here, but from what I gather it hasn't. Anyone into fantasy or sci-fi would enjoy this author I think. Her books can be read as a series, but any one of them could easily stand alone. This one is better though if you've read seven or eight others.
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Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at 1:30 p.m., in the hour of the Sheep, year of the Fire Tiger, sun sign Aries with Taurus rising and Leo mid-heaven (which seems to suggest an early interest in the stars).
Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent. She had two...more
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Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent. She had two...more
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